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Nuclear Modernization

Nuke Agency Refutes Anti’s Court Claims, Says Feds Looked at Environmental Effect of Making Warhead Cores in New Mexico

Sarah Salem

Wednesday, November 20th, 2024

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Nuke Agency Refutes Anti’s Court Claims, Says Feds Looked at Environmental Effect of Making Warhead Cores in New Mexico

A mock-up plutonium pit at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, seen during a June 2023 media tour. Source: Los Alamos National Laboratory

The National Nuclear Security Administration, in asking a court to deny an activist’s amicus brief in an ongoing lawsuit, said it conducted a review of producing warhead cores in New Mexico. At the end of October, Greg Mello, executive director of the Los Alamos Study Group in Albuquerque, N.M., filed a proposed amicus brief saying that the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) should “revert to the single-site production strategy,” with the single site being Savannah River Site, to satisfy a…

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